Beginnings are apt to be inauspicious, and so they were in 1851 with Henry Jarvis Raymond’s little newspaper. But over the last 150 years, as the nation endured wars, depressions, terror attacks and often painful political, economic and cultural growth, that paper survived competitive challenges, even brushes with death, and prospered beyond its founders’ wildest dreams.

Here are some related resources for teaching with The Times and for learning more about its history:

Where are your offerings for music in the listings of lesson plans. You seem to have plenty of visual arts, critical analysis activities, etc. but how about music for music’s sake?

Hi Wild Bill — Unfortunately, we don’t have the huge variety of lesson plans for music that we do for subjects like English, social studies, science and math, but we do have some — and we do our best to include music on the blog in other ways. But maybe thanks to your question we’ll get a good lesson plan up this year that uses Times resources to teach music. Thanks for writing in. –Katherine